1. KNOWLEDGEWEB Educational Area Coordinators: Enrico Motta / OU
Wolfgang Nejdl / L3S
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24/04/19

2. Our Goals: Activities to Spread Excellence
Different communities: Educational, industrial and research communities
Different kinds of students: students, professionals, researchers
Found an institution (VISWE) to support all communities in an integrated way
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

3. Work Packages
3.1 Foundations for Virtual Institute for Semantic Web Education (VISWE)
3.2 Educational content and event provision – Course materials, educational events, summer schools, complete courses and training programmes
3.3 Semantic delivery platform – Development of a Semantic Platform for delivering/interacting with learning material about Semantic Web
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

4. Participants
Learning Lab Lower Saxony, University of Hanover (L3S) 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
The Open University, UK (OU) 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
University of Trento (UniTn) 3.1, 3.3
Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) 3.1, 3.2
Free University of Bozen – Bolzano (FUB) 3.1, 3.2
Informatics and Telematics Institute (CERTH) 3.1, 3,2
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) 3.1, 3.2
University of Karlsruhe (UKARL) 3.1, 3.2
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) 3.1
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) 3.1
Inst. National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) 3.2
University of Liverpool (LivUni) 3.2
University of Manchester (VUM) 3.2
University of Sheffield (USFD) 3.2
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) 3.2
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

5. 3.1 Virtual Institute for Semantic Web Education - VISWE
Central focus of all educational activities within Knowledge Web
Provides learning materials, services, and events to support knowledge acquisition
Administrative unit for the organization of distance and face to face learning (courses, summer schools e.g.)
Manage the infrastructure to store and access all kinds of educational material
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

6. 3.1 Virtual Institute for Semantic Web Education - VISWE
Coordination and distribution of M.Sc and Ph.D. program in cooperation with several participating universities
Training programs for industrial learners
Face-to-face and distance learning offers
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

7. 3.1 VISWE Co-operation KnowledgeWeb and REWERSE
REWERSE aims at developing and establishing rules and reasoning for the Semantic Web ("logic and rule layer" of the Semantic Web tower)
Education and training in order to transfer technologies to the industry
Special programmes for the training of young researchers, doctoral students, and young Information Technology professionals:
initiate and run a yearly Spring or Summer School.
develop and publish on the Web virtual courses.
develop and run a Web-based doctoral programme.
Education & Training (education with target group: university level education)
Technology Transfer and Awareness (awareness events and education targeted to industry).
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

8. 3.1 First Tasks Conducting a detailed requirement analysis for VISWE
Investigation of prior attempts
IVIMEDS, BIT
Legal implications/instruments
Relation to Bologna Declaration for creating a ‚European higher education area‘
Lessons learnt from the first OntoWeb Summer School
Negotiations among Universities
Financial, copyright, personnel implications, mutual approval of courses credit points, memoranda of understanding
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

9. 3.1 Deliverables (first 18 month)
D Specification of VISWE tasks and goals (as result of a requirements analysis)
D Document on organizational structure and legal form of VISWE to which all participating partners have agreed
D Memorandum of Understanding signed by participating partners, regarding commitment to organizational structure and legal form of VISWE
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

10. 3.2 Content, Courses and Programs
Goals:
Provide a ready-to-use collection of learning materials
Complete courses
Tutorials
Exercises
...
Organize educational events
Summer schools
Training seminars for professionals
Joint M.Sc. and Ph.D. university courses
Long-Term: provide M.Sc. and Ph.D. programme
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

11. 3.2 First Tasks 1. Identification of core curricula
Selection of required topics
Agreement on curriculum (->VISWE)
2. Collection and organization of learning units
Collection of available material (started)
Adaptation of this material and creation of missing pieces
Ordering and Provision in a LMS
3. Organization of learning events
Summer school
Professional training
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

12. 3.2 Ontology for Semantic Web domain
Subsumes Ontoweb Portal Ontology/AKT – which can be regarded as community self-portrait
Needs EML or similar for pedagogic roles, course components, courses, programmes etc.
Needs new classes for subject matter (e.g., for knowledge modelling components such as ‘class’)
Can serve as basis to describe Curricula
Prerequisite for Semantic Learning Platform
Must be built by the KnowledgeWeb/VISWE community
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

13. 3.2 Deliverables (first 18 Months)
D v1 Initial learning unit collection available
D Report on educational events
D Report on core curricula in Ontology and Semantic Web
D Agreement on M.Sc. curriculum by all participating universities
D MoU on curriculum and mutual course approval
D Summer school on semantic web technologies
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

14. 3.3 Semantic Delivery Platform
Goals
Setting up an infrastructure for learning material provision and distance learning
Creation of a central access point for all learning units within KnowledgeWeb
Usage of semantic technology
enhance learning experience
evaluate new approaches
Forging links with other NoEs by using common approaches and/or sharing infrastructure
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

15. 3.3 First Tasks 1. Agreement on formats and metadata
which formats are currently in use?
which metadata is necessary for semantic extensions
2. Setup of a Learning Management System
Requirements analysis and system selection
Installation and administration of the selected platform
3. Provision of semantic extensions
personalized knowledge management, document enrichment, services for knowledge sharing
First focus on Semantic Browsing (based on Magpie by OU)
4. Collaboration with IMS Global Learning Consortium and NoE PROLEARN (lead by L3S)
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

16. 3.3 Why add extensions Knowledge Web is a Semantic Web oriented NoE
We need showcases of what we can do
The LMS+SW hybrid augments/provides an alternative for browsing, search, etc.
LMS+SW is better since more focussed on resources retrieved using an ontology built by the community - i.e., using a community point of view
Note that we will concentrate in the first 18 months on adding semantic browsing using KMi’s Magpie.
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

17. 3.3 Magpie
Uses lexicon derived from domain ontology to identify and highlight textual elements in web pages which can be associated with classes
Associates appropriate services with classes
User accesses these from menu obtained by right clicking on highlighted class
Can also push information (related class instances etc.) as user browses
Keeps semantic log of user interactions (i.e., asserts to knowledge base)
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

18. Current ontology classes (Results of) Learning service selected
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19. 3.3 Extending VISWE’s LMS using Magpie
Identify community/community requirements
Build Ontology (and create metadata scheme, populate ontologies)
Create/find tools for community construction of ontologies, learning objects, learning services
Construct new learning services
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

20. 3.3 Deliverables (first 18 Months)
D Report on the agreed metadata standard for learning units
D v1 Basic infrastructure available
D Prototype of advanced learning platform
D Report on collaboration with IMS Consortium and PROLEARN
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

21. Status
A questionnaire has been sent out to get an overview of learning units which can be provided by partners
So far already 9 partners have agreed to provide learning units: EPFL, IFI, INRIA, L3S, OU, UKARL, UPM, USFD, VUA
Topics
Knowledge engineering
Ontological engineering
Knowledge management
Semantic Web Technology
Semantic Web Services
Web-based Knowledge Representation
Intelligent Web Applications
Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web
Intelligent Web Applications
Various Ontology Topics
Ont. for spatio-temporal data
Ont. Methodologies
Ont. Tools
...
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24/04/19

22. Status Learning units from various learning contexts
University courses
Summer school lectures
Tutorials
Paper collections
...
Languages
english, french, german,
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

23. Next Steps Requirements Analysis for VISWE
Specification of VISWE tasks and goals
Separating or integrating target groups (university education, industrial training, research communities)?
Market survey for the industrial community?
Learning Events
Summer School Organization
Material Provision
Extend and complete learning unit list
Build SW topic ontology
Select topics for M.Sc. Curriculum
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19

24. Next Steps Setup of Learning Management System Semantic Extensions
Conduct Requirements Analysis (First draft of a requirements document has already been created)
Select Product
Semantic Extensions
See also:
Specific sessions on these topics on Wednesday
Wolfgang Nejdl
24/04/19